Countries
Cambodia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Lao Language
Hindi
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3336
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good afternoon
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
សូម
कृपया
Sorry
សូរី
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Doteli
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Vietnam
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Nepal
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
khmer central
népalais
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
14
19 BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Nepali
Language Position
159
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
km
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
nep
ISO 639 2/B
khm
nep
ISO 639 3
khm
npi
ISO 639 6
khm
nep
Glottocode
khme1253
nepa1254
Linguasphere
48-ACB
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative